英国文学史期末答案2023秋

1.

The three most notable Shakespearean critics of the Romantic period are ______.

A:W. Schlegel B:Francis Bacon C:A. William Hazlitt D:Coleridge
答案:"AI参考:正确选项是【D:Coleridge】。 在浪漫主义时期，莎士比亚的评论家中最著名的是柯勒律治，他也是浪漫主义批评家的重要代表之一。因此，D选项是正确答案。其他选项中，W. Schlegel（A）是德国浪漫主义文学批评家，Francis Bacon（B）是英国文艺复兴时期的哲学家和批评家，A. William Hazlitt（C）是英国文学评论家，但他的评论主要集中在18世纪和19世纪的文学上，而不是莎士比亚的评论。因此，这三个选项都不是浪漫主义时期对莎士比亚评论最著名的批评家。"
2.Which of the following types of religious vernacular plays were popular in the medieval period?
A:Morality plays B:Tragedies C:Miracle plays D:Mystery plays
答案:Mystery plays###Miracle plays###Morality plays
3._________literature is used to describe certain characteristics of________ literature and a reaction against___________ implicit in Modernist literature.
A:Enlightenment ideas B:post-World War II C:Renaissance ideas D:Postmodern
答案:Postmodern###post-World War II###Enlightenment ideas
4.James Joyce’s major works include ___.
A:Dubliners B:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man C:Ulysses D:Finnegans Wake
答案:Dubliners###A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man###Ulysses###Finnegans Wake
5.D. H. Lawrence is a prolific writer, his works include ______.
A:Women in Love B:Sons and Lovers C:The Rainbow D:“Insouciance”
答案:The Rainbow; Sons and Lovers; Women in Love; “Insouciance”
6.Playwrights commonly associated with “the Theatre of the Absurd” include________, etc.
A:Edward Albee B:Virginia Woolf C:Harold Pinter D:Samuel Beckett
答案:Edward Albee###Samuel Beckett###Harold Pinter
7.Shakespeare’s great tragedies include ______.
A:Othello B:King Lear C:Hamlet D:Macbeth
答案:King Lear###Hamlet###Othello###Macbeth
8.Which of the following plays were written by Harold Pinter?
A:The Homecoming B:The Caretaker C:The Dumb Waiter D:The Room
答案:The Room###The Dumb Waiter###The Caretaker###The Homecoming
9.Beside golden, Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook contains notebooks of _______.
A:black B:yellow C:blue D:red
答案:black###red###yellow###blue
10.Which of followings are the ends of The French Lieutenant’s Woman?
A:Charles marries Ernestina in his fantasy. B:Sarah refuses Charles and does not let him know that she has given birth to a son. C:Sarah tries Charles and makes up with him. D:The author wants to bereave Ernestina during his journey.
答案:Sarah tries Charles and makes up with him###Charles marries Ernestina in his fantasy###Sarah refuses Charles and does not let him know that she has given birth to a son
11.From which aspect(s) can we appreciate an English poem?
A:author B:time C:musicality D:image 12.Maugham was noted for his novels such as ______.
A:The Moon and Sixpence B:B.Of Human Bondage C:The Painted Veil D:Women in Love 13.Which of the following are written by David Lodge?
A:Language of Fiction B:The Art of Fiction C:The Novelist at the Crossroads D:The Modes of Modem Writing 14.The novel Heart of Darkness is concerned about ____
A:return of nature B:ambition C:madness D:the nature of obsession 15.Most of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in Wessex, .
A:a crude region in England B:a fictional region C:a remote rural area D:Hardy's hometown 16.Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on .
A:the desire of the criminals for property B:the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence C:the struggle of the pirates for wealth D:the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security 17.In 1948, Auden’s poem won the Pulitzer Prize.
A:Lyrical Ballads B:Prufrock and Other Observations C:Murder in the Cathedral D:The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue 18.Elias Canetti was a British contemporary novelist who wrote in ______.
A:Japanese B:Italian C:German D:French 19.V. S. Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in ______.
A:1995 B:1988 C:1984 D:2001 20.An English writer who first sets forth the three words” liberty, equality, fraternity” in his work Utopia which introduced an entirely new concept of human society and changes the world dramatically ever since, he is _____.
A:More B:Newton C:Shakespeare D:Marx 21.D. H. Lawrence’s best-known work is ______.
A:Women in Love B:Lady Chatterley’s Lover C:Sons and Lover D:The Rainbow 22.______ , also known as the first Viscount Alban, is universally acknowledged as a pioneer in English essay writing.
A:Alfred the Great B:Sir Philip Sidney C:Sir Francis Bacon D:Sir Thomas More 23.Old English poetry is generally divided into two groups, ______and Christian.
A:ballad B:sonnet C:heroic D:lyric 24.Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ________.
A:neo-romanticism B:sentimentalism C:aestheticism D:naturalism 25.Henry Fielding has been regarded as “______” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern ______.
A:Father of English Poetry...poetry B:Father of English Novel...novel C:Father of Modern English Novel...novel D:Father of Modern English Poetry...poetry 26.The ______ in Europe began with the collapse of the Roman Empire.
A:Medieval Age (476—1500) B:Renaissance period C:19th century D:18th century 27.William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was published in ________.
A:1957 B:1954 C:1955 D:1956 28.______ is the oldest surviving epic in the English language, and the greatest monument of Old English literature.
A:Robin Hood B:Beowulf C:Piers Plowman D:King Arthur 29.Renaissance was started from ______century in the case of English poetry.
A:15th B:12th C:16th D: 13th 30.Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.
A:Alexander Pope B:John Dryden C:Charles Dickens D:Laurence Sterne 31.Sir Philip Sidney was best known for his poetry as well as his critical essay on poetry which entitled ______.
A:Arcadia B:Astrophel and Stella C:The School of Abuse D: An Apology for Poetry 32.The social significance of Gulliver's Travels lies in _____.
A:the devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life B:his artistic skill in making the story an organic whole C:his central concern of study of human nature and life D:both B and C 33.How many tales did Chaucer plan to produce in The Canterbury Tales?
A:24 B:100 C:50 D:120 34.The novel Sons and Lovers tells mainly about the complicated relations of ___ with his mother and his two sweethearts.
A:The other three are right. B:Philip C:William D:Paul 35.______ is Matthew Arnold’s finest work dealing with the whole structure of English civilization and culture.
A: On Familiar Style B:Culture and Anarchy C:Modern Painters D: Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays 36.Joyce isn’t a scrupulous writer.
A:对 B:错 37.The Canterbury Tales is one of Chaucer’s complete poems.
A:错 B:对 38.Elias Canetti turned to seek the true meaning of life from the ancient eastern civilization.
A:错 B:对 39.Oliver Goldsmith was famous for, the novel The Vicar of Wakefield.
A:错 B:对 40.Henry James’s fundamental theme was the innocence of the New World and the corruption of the Old.
A:错 B:对 41.In Renaissance literature, the major movement was humanism, which imitated the Greeks and Romans and focused on human beings rather than the gods.
A:对 B:错 42.Tennyson and Browning have even been considered the “Third Generation of Romantics”.
A:对 B:错 43.In the history of British drama, the audience also exercises an influence on the content of a performance.
A:对 B:错 44.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is now best-known as the author of Cranford and North and South.
A:对 B:错 45.Chaucer is considered the “Father of English literature”.
A:对 B:错 46.John Fowles designed five different endings for The French Lieutenant’s Woman for readers to choose.
A:错 B:对 47.Concerning prose writing, “On Familiar Style” is the one that best illustrates Hazlitt’s ideas for the style of essays
A:对 B:错 48.John Lyly’s Euphues serves for a good example of Senecan style.
A:错 B:对 49.The Irish traditions of the power of the spoken word, especially in matters of religion, are present in Dylan’s poetry.
A:对 B:错 50.Yeats handles themes of age and myth in poems such as Sailing to Byzantium.
A:对 B:错 51.Thomas Hardy’s novels reflect the conflicts between the traditional and the modern, between the old rural value of respectability and honesty and the new utilitarian commercialism, between the old, false social moral and the natural human passion.
A:错 B:对 52.In terms of its structure, Ulysses bears a resemblance to the Greek epic Odyssey.
A:错 B:对 53.Among Auden’s highly regarded skills was the ability to think in terms of both symbols and reality at the same time.
A:错 B:对 54.William Golding prefers critics call him “allegorical” to “symbolic”.
A:对 B:错 55.The Cavaliers’ poetry is more complicated than that of the Metaphysicals.
A:对 B:错 56.One thing in common in English essays is that the expressiveness and aesthetics are of the primary things that matter.
A:对 B:错 57.In Keats’s work the struggle with aesthetic form becomes an image of a struggle for meaning against the limits of experience.
A:错 B:对 58.Chaucer is also credited with pioneering the regular use of iambic pentameter.
A:对 B:错 59.Jane Austen portrayed the harsh, day-to-day life of the lower class in London.
A:错 B:对 60.Harold Pinter is chiefly known for his early “comedies of menace” of absurd strain, and The Dumb Waiter is one of the best examples of this group.
A:错 B:对 61.Generally, “essay” in its broad sense may refer to the texts that offer pleasure of reading for the readers instead of only providing information for the readers.
A:对 B:错 62.In fact, the intention of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook is the questioning of “the true meaning of feminism”.
A:错 B:对 63.Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language was the first English dictionary.
A:错 B:对 64.George Eliot is the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, set largely in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight.
A:对 B:错 65.The term “Metaphysical” was used to describe some poets’ work by the 18th-century critic Samuel Johnson.
A:对 B:错